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Magnitude of undiscovered resource in Iraq’s western desert in dispute

07/02/2007
Sadad Al-Husseini, Saudi Aramco (retired), DhahranMoujahed Al-Husseini, GeoArabia, Manama, BahrainThe issue of accuracy in reporting oil and gas reserves and resources in the Middle East gulf region has been a cause for professional concern inside and outside the region for many decades.1 Hundreds of billions of barrels of oil reserves are reported as proven and undiminished, year-after-year, even though little technical data are available to confirm the reliability of these estimates.While some producers such as Iraq and Iran have not conducted significant exploration and development programs for years to justify their current reserves, others such as Kuwait have reported conflicting pro...
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